Garment hanger



July 12, 1938. B. M. YANKovlTc-H 2,123,518

GARMENT HANGER Filed Nov. 25, 1955 n/MPM. VAN/fawn.

ATTORNEY.

Patented July 12, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

As a garment hanger is usually constructed it comprises a bow or archedportion suitably formed to support a coat and vest or other bodygarments and a bar which traverses the bow and has both ends fixed tothe bow, being adapted to support a pair of trousers. To apply thetrousers to or remove them from the bar, especially if the closet orother space occupied is crowded with other garments, usually requiresremoval of the hanger from the hook or rod on which it is suspended.Further, it is impossible to hang any garment on the bar except byfoldingor bending it at about midway its length and draping it over thebar: the bar cannot be used for hanging a garment by its hanger loop orloops, as when in the case of ladies garments a body garment or garmentsand a skirt are to be hung.

According to this invention the bar is attached only at one end to thebow and when it is in operative position it is disengageably engaged atits other end with the bow, accomplished here by tensioning the hangeras will appear, such tension being a factor in insuring against the barbeing unintentionally disengaged from the bow so that the garmentsupported thereby would fall.

In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one form of a hanger constructed inaccordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan, with the hook in section;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a detail;

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4, Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a plan of a modied form of the hanger with the hook insection;

Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a detail of the hanger shown in Fig. 5;

Figs. '7 and 8 are front elevations of that end portion of each of twoother modified forms of the hanger at which the bar is pivoted to thebow;

Fig. 9 is a section on line 9 9, Fig. 7;

Fig. 10 is a horizontal sectional View of that end portion of anothermodified form of the hanger at which the bar is pivoted to the bow;

Fig. 11 is a front elevation of another modified 45 form of the hangerwith the free end of the bar disengaged; and

Fig. 12 is a front elevation of a detail illustrating another modiedform.

In all the forms, as will appear, except that 50 shown in Fig. 11, thebar is hinged at one end to the bow. As to such forms reference willfirst be made to that shown in Figs. 1 to 4.

The body of the bow may be in two main sections I -2 which, except aswill appear, are reverse 55 counterparts of each other in that eachincludes ashank suitably formed to suit a coat and Vest or other bodygarments and connected with the other section by grooving, as at 3,their adjoining ends so that the grooves extend in vertical planes andtting in the grooves tongues 3a, the sections and tongues being gluedtogether; at the joint thus formed the shank of a hook 4, suitably upsetat its lower end, penetrates the bow. Each section has at its free end adepending butt 5. The end of one section including such butt is forkedby being grooved at S in a vertical plane and in this is glued an insertor filler piece 1 in the form of a plate which conforms to the contourof the said end except at its under inner portion which is cut away toprovide an arcuate clearance 3 anked at the inner side thereof by ashoulder or stop 9 which is above the bottom of the butt. The end 0f theother section including such a butt 5 is likewise forked and receivesand has glued therein a flat insert It which generally conforms to thecontour of said end except as will be indicated. This insert has aninwardly open notch I I therein and at one side of such insert thematerial of said butt is also provided with an inwardly open notch I Iawhose top side is flush with that of notch II but whose bottom side isabove the bottom side I2 of notch I I. The side I2 of the recess thusformed forms an upwardly facing abutment which is the blindor closed endof an L-shaped recess which (Fig. 4) enters from one verticallongitudinal face of the bow and then extends downwardly to saidlabutment.

The first-named butt is penetrated horizontally by a pin I4 affording arest on which is pivoted the elastic flexible bar I5. This bar may swingon its pivot, permitted by the clearance 8, from a depending position toone in which its free end may enter said recess and seat on saidabutment, though only by the bar assuming a state of tension and soputting the hanger in tension due to contact of the bar with theshoulder 9. When the bar is engaged in the recess it therefore cannot bedisengaged therefrom except by intentional application of effort.

Instead of depending on elasticity of the bar and in that way puttingthe hanger in tension I may, as shown in Fig. 12, set back the portion,as I6, further than the shoulder 9 and attach there? to a leaf-springI1.

Instead of forming the bow as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 it may be composedof two sections each including three laminae I8 all lying in verticalplanes and glued together as in Fig.5, the two outer laminae of onesection lapping at their inner ends the inner end of the intermediatelamina of the other section. Each butt in this case will be formed thesame as the butts in Figs. 1 to 4, excepting that in this case the innerlaminae of the two sections serve in place of the ller pieces 1, theirouter ends being shaped the same as such filler pieces or inserts.

Fig. 10 shows a construction generally the same as that of Figs. 5 and 6except that in place of using a pin, as I4, to serve as a pivot for thebar the bar, 20, has opposite trunnions 2| and these are received inbearings 22 formed in the inner faces of the outer laminae of onesection of the bow and acting as such fixed pivot.

Figs. '7 and 9 show a form in which, instead of the butt to which thebar, 23, is pivoted, being forked said end is formed with a side recess24 so that the bar laps the butt, being pivoted therein on a pin 25desirably provided with washers 26.

Fig. 8 shows a form. somewhat similar to that of Figs. 7 and 9 exceptingthat instead of the bar abutting a shoulder above. the bar and inward ofits pivot the butt is formed with a shoulder '21 which is below the bar,28, and outward of its pivot.

In Fig'. 11 the bar 29 is elastic and is screwed into one butt of thebow 30 and normally is so inclined that its other end is below therecess 3| (like recess I I). To engage said other end in the recess saidend is sprung' upwardly, thus putting the bar in tension. The rest andstop for the bar (corresponding to the rest and stop thereforrespectively at I4 and 9 in Fig. l) may be respectively taken asportions of the upper and lower sides of the bore, into which the bar isin this instance screwed, oifset from each other in about the samerelation as the lead-lines for the characters 32 in this Fig. 11; inshort, when the bar is sprung upward in Fig. 11 it acts lever-fashionwith respect to its rest and stop the. same as does the bar I5 in Fig. 1with respect to its rest and stop.

The bow and bar may be constructed of wood or other material capable ofbeing glued when the bow is in part or wholly of laminated construction.

According to my invention there is a tensioning of the hanger when thefree end of the bar is seated on the abutment (in the example suchmanifesting itself by some flexing of the baras shown in Fig. l-which issomewhat elastic; and this is due to that extremity of the bow to whichthe bar is connected aording means (as I4--9 in Fig. 1, or I4-Il in theconstruction of Figs. 1 and 12, or the pivot and shoulder 21 in Fig. 8,or at such points as 32 in Fig. 11) which obstructs the free upwardmovement of the free end portion of the bar to the position to seat onthe abutment, as I2, or to enter the recess provided therefor. Bylocating said means in the extremity to which the bar is connected thedesired degree of tension is attained in such manner that the bar isfree from one extremity to the other of the bow, thus distinguishingfrom such constructions as that of the Jacobs Patent No. 1,344,697, forexample.

It will be understood that the lamination of the extremities of the bowis to facilitate the forming thereof with the aforementioned means andthe recess to receive the free end of the bar and that this constructionis not indispensable.

At 33, Fig. 1, is shown a pair of light spring clips which, when the baris supported as described in horizontal position, will bear on thetrousers or other garment to insure against their slipping off the bar.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. A garment hanger including as twoindependently formed parts a bowhaving one extremit`y provided with an upwardly facing abutment abutsbefore the first-named end portion of the bar may seat on said abutmentwhen the bar is moved upwardly, and said bar being flexible and elastic.

2. A garment hanger including a bow having one extremity thereofcomposed of several longitudinally extending laminae arranged invertical planes, an intermediate one of such laminae being cut away atits relatively inner and under portion and thereby affording aclearance, and a bar having one end portion pivotally supported by saidextremity to move around a horizontal axis and having such end portionreceived in the clearance and between the larninae fianking theintermediate lamina at both side thereof, said hanger having means toengage the other end portion of and support the bar in traversingrelation to the bow and said intermediate lamina said other end portionis moved into engagement with the first-named means.

BOZHIDAR M. YANKOVITCH.

.so ing a stop against which said other end portion"

